The Big Explosion
ROM the point of view of entertainment and interest, the failing of any talks on the atomic bomb like that given by Sir William Penny on the experiment at Montebello is that we hear only about externals. I have read elsewhere that in Japan, as a result of the Hiroshima explosion, the grain yield has increased several times and that some other plants have undergone radical alteration. Facts such as these which touch upon the more positive aspects of atomic fission and also upon the mysteries of nature are, I think, more interesting to most of us than eye-witness accounts of monstrous explosions which have been, after all, recorded for so many of the pictorial magazines. It is a defect of the age that we are impressed by size, quantity and power as if in their very mindlessness lay reasons for continuing awe. We have come to
a expect the BBC to do something towatds checking this error, and naturally feel cheated when we are given instead a talk which, essentially, contains no more in height or depth than the streaming headlines which blacken the day.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 8
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190The Big Explosion New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 8
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